Two women celebrate their marriage at Oakland's City Hall, Oakland, California, June 16, 2008. Mostly obscured behind them is Oakland mayor Ron...
Worker grinds crankshafts in the foundry of the Ford Motor Company's Ford River Rouge complex circa May 1947 at Dearborn near Detroit, Michigan,...
Tuskegee Airman cadet George S Roberts in the cockpit of a North American Aviation T-6 Texan Advanced Trainer single engined aircraft on 12th January...
The Fultz sisters sit around a table having a tea party as they celebrate their fourth birthday, North Carolina, United States, 18th May 1950. The...
Portrait of American dancer and choreographer Robert Moses, San Francisco, California, September 1, 1998.
Young boy leans his head back and sticks his tongue out as a doctor inspects the child's throat during a medical examination in New York City, New...
Group of newsboys wait outside the local newspaper office for the new papers to come out, in Galveston, Texas, circa 1955.
Small crowd gathers to watch a group of musicians perform at Maxwell Street Market in the Maxwell Street neighbourhood of Chicago, Illinois, Summer...
Woman with an afro hairstyle, looking over her bare shoulder, smiling in a studio shot, United States, circa 1975.
American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, wearing a fur coat, beneath a striped flag , United States, circa 1968.
Poster featuring an image of a Black couple and a tombstone that reads 'Killed by Discrimination in Health' during a May Day demonstration in Union...
Jehovah's Witnesses before their baptism in the Atlantic Ocean during a Mass Baptismal Rite, on the Atlantic coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1951.
The Hines brothers, American actors and dancers Gregory Hines and Maurice Hines, with Maurice on his brother's back, United States 13th February 1957.
American Girl Scout Lilla Huston, of Troop 3244, salutes as she models the new Girl Scout uniform, beside American Girl Scout Agnes Violenus, also...
American actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg, wearing a white dress with floral motifs, during her Hand & Footprint Ceremony on the forecourt...
American actor Danny Glover and his wife, Asake Bomani, attend the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena,...
Various US officials watch as Vice President Dick Cheney speaks on the telephone in the White House's Presidential Emergency Operations Center,...
United States Army NCO's JH Jones, R Flower, CE Davis, J White, JH Carmen, SC Farrell, B Lucas, HL Printer and EN Barrington of the 369th Infantry...
Group of teenagers, three sitting on a bench as the other sits on the floor, wearing matching outfits and roller skates, United States, circa 1975.
American string band, The Ebony Hillbillies, performing for commuters on the platform at the 42nd Street-Grand Central subway station, New York, New...
View of, from left, Harry Belafonte , Coretta Scott King , and the latter's children, Yolanda King & Dexter Scott King , as they sit on a platform...
Doris Blake, ballet dancer with the National Negro Opera Company, during rehearsals for their performance of La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi at New...
Street-level view of a two-story red-brick corner store with 'SOUL BRO' hand-painted in the front window to signal African American ownership during...
Portrait of a young African American woman in a floral print dress and earrings, seated before a painted studio backdrop, 1945. USA.
Portrait of a young African American woman seated on a wooden bench in front of a studio backdrop featuring a stone bridge, flowing stream, pine...
Woman taking a photograph as she and her daughter sit on the edge of the ornamental lily pond in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, circa 1965.
Teacher seated at her desk and reading books with three students, 1940s. A periodic table is shown on the wall at back.
Araminta Anthony, of New York City's children's services, with a girl holding a doll at Harlem's first toy library, New York, circa 1960. Toys are...
Children feeling the exterior of a hornets' nest held by a teacher in a classroom at a Harlem school, New York, circa January 1948.
Hilliard Taylor wearing the uniform of a bank messenger in Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1925. Taylor, said to be 80 years old, was born into slavery...
American ballet dancer Janet Collins dancing with Zachary Sollov , director of ballet at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, circa 1951.
American singer and guitarist Sylvia Vanterpool, wearing a short-sleeve crew-neck outfit, of American R&B duo Mickey & Sylvia, playing a Gibson 'Les...
Group portrait showing players from the Washington Homestead Grays baseball team, left to right, African American catcher Josh Gibson , African...
Portrait of Moses Fleetwood Walker as a member of the American Association baseball team the Toledo Blue Stockings in 1884 in Toledo Ohio.
Civil rights marcher suffering from exposure to tear gas, holds an unconscious Amelia Boynton Robinson after mounted police officers attacked...
An African American man wearing a WKDA cap poses for the camera during a radio open house event in 1954 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Young woman with her hair in rollers, taken on the streets of Oakland in California, circa December 1966.
Woman wearing a short yellow dress alongside another woman who is leaning against a red car, taken on the streets of Oakland in California, circa...
Young children, one with a football, playing on the ornately columned porch and stairway of a derelict house in the city of Oakland, California,...
Two women in conversation outside their local church, on a Sunday morning in New York City, Harlem neighbourhood of Upper Manhattan, circa October...
Group of women meet in a Diner before attending worship at their local church, Sunday morning, in New York City, Harlem neighbourhood of Upper...
Debi Thomas from the United States wearing the gold medal after winning the Ladies Figure Skating Singles competition during the 1986 ISU World...
Teresa Edwards, Shooting Guard for the United States women's basketball team, in motion dribbling the basketball down court during the Group B...
Briana Scurry, Goalkeeper for the United States women's football team, celebrates with outstretched arms after winning the Gold medal game of the...
Portrait of the singing group, The Pointer Sisters, a group from Oakland of real-life sisters. From L-R are Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June wearing a...
American actor Esther Rolle is interviewed, among a crowd as they attend the reopening of Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, New York, May 1978. The...
